Practical New Silyloxy-Based Alkyne Metathesis Catalysts with Optimized Activity and Selectivity Profiles
- 22 July 2010
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 132 (32), 11045-11057
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja104800w
Abstract
Triphenylsilanolate ligands were found to impart excellent reactivity and outstanding functional group tolerance on molybdenum alkylidyne complexes, which catalyze alkyne metathesis reactions of all sorts. The active species either can be obtained in high yield by adaptation of the established synthesis routes leading to Schrock alkylidynes or can be generated in situ from the molybdenum nitride complex 11, which itself is readily accessible in large quantity from inexpensive sodium molybdate. Complexation of the active silanolate complexes 12 and 24 with 1,10-phenanthroline affords complexes 15 and 25, respectively, which are stable in air for extended periods of time. Although these phenathroline adducts are per se unreactive vis-à-vis alkynes, catalytic activity is conveniently restored upon exposure to MnCl2. Therefore, the practitioner has the choice of different alkyne metathesis (pre)catalysts, which are easy to handle yet broadly applicable and exceedingly tolerant. A host of representative inter- as well as intramolecular alkyne metathesis reactions, including applications to a considerable number of bioactive and, in part, labile natural products, shows the remarkable scope of these new tools. Moreover, it was found that the addition of molecular sieves (5 Å ≥ 4 Å ≫ 3 Å) to the reaction mixture significantly improves the chemical yields while simultaneously increasing the reaction rates. This benefit is ascribed to effective binding of 2-butyne, which is released as the common byproduct in reactions of alkynes bearing a methyl end-cap. Thus, alkyne metatheses can now be performed at ambient temperature with neither the need to apply vacuum to drive the conversion nor recourse to tailor-made substrates. The structures of representative examples of this new generation of alkyne metathesis catalysts in the solid state were determined by X-ray analysis.Keywords
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